![]() ![]() The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. ![]() The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. “ The beet is the most intense of vegetables. Looks premeditated now, but it wasn't so.Īlso, Tom Robbins talked perfume in a time when it was not the norm, not de rigueur.Īnd this passage still cracks me up, and it is meant to be shared. right at the start of my career and did not come back until I was towards the end. (early 90s)Īt that time, I had also walked away from fragrances. I read Jitterbug Perfume a long time ago. ![]()
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